The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Content + Design
Hosted by Gladys Diandoki & Janine Griffin
This intersectional group explores the intricate relationship between content and design, emphasizing their essential collaboration in creating effective outputs.
2 PM ET Mindfulness & Modeling
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf
This thoughtful group explores the parallels between mindfulness and modeling, emphasizing the integration of mind and body, the significance of presence over outcomes, and the patterns that help us remember what matters.
3 PM ET Sensemaking Lab (Premium)
Hosted by Abby Covert
A monthly session for Premium members to collaboratively share and refine their work in a supportive environment.
1 PM ET Public Ask Me Anything
Hosted by Mike Creech
A free, public Q&A where anyone curious about the Sensemakers Club can ask questions about membership, events, and how the community works.
2 PM ET Knowledge Management & Governance
Hosted by Dina Bennett & Jane Leuchter
This lively group focuses on collaborative efforts in knowledge management and governance, bringing together individuals tackling complex documentation and change proposals.
2 PM ET Career Transitions
Hosted by Kate Murphy & Alison Gretz
This supportive group focuses on navigating the challenges and opportunities of career transitions, whether you're changing roles, industries, or re-entering the workforce.
2 PM ET Information Architecture: Governance is the Way
Hosted by Abby Covert
Too many good information architectures are launched and left to deteriorate. Let’s talk about what governance is, who owns it, and how to plan for it before it turns into bigger systemic problems.
3 PM ET A community in transition: IAI ends and World IA Day begins
Hosted by Cass Fellerman & David Farkas
Guests: Abby Covert, Dan Klyn & Grace Lau
Two of the IA Institute’s final presidents and the current President of World IA Day reflect on why the IAI closed, how World IA Day was born, and the lessons and legacy left behind.
What’s going on?
Week of September 28, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week in Making Sense of The Future, members wrote a short story set five years ahead, imagining a signal they'd noticed in the past month had become commonplace, and then looked at how to tell real signals from hype. In Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Neuroinclusion, members talked about how to support a struggling colleague while respecting their boundaries, and what makes a workplace where people can ask for what they need without explaining or justifying it. In Making Sense of Facilitation, members looked at the concerns and opportunities of using AI in facilitation, from live meeting companions to AI summaries that invent decisions. In Making Sense of Language, members asked how to refactor exclusionary or outdated language that's built into an organization's systems, and whether to update it quietly or keep a visible trail of how it changed.
Themes from last week:
- Plain words are a form of care
- Nobody's a mind reader
- Choosing the human in the loop
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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